Biography:JD Albert
JD Albert (born April 18, 1975) is an American engineer, inventor, and educator. Albert is one of the inventors of microencapsulated electrophoretic display (known as E Ink) commonly used in electronic devices such as e-readers.[1] In 2016 Albert was one of the youngest inventors to ever be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[2] Albert is named on over 80 granted US patents.[3] He currently teaches product development in the University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design (IPD) program.[4]
Career
Along with Barrett Comiskey, he developed the E Ink display. The two invented E Ink while they were undergraduates at MIT. MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobson recruited them to create a technology that mimicked pages in a book.[5] As Albert told Science Friday,[6] "It was ... experimental discovery. ... We had ideas, we were doing a lot of research, reading a lot of patents — many of which were expired patents — recreating experiments, and really, truly forging ahead to make this thing work. It involved a lot of prototypes, and it involved a huge amount of failed experiments." In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.
In 1997, Albert, Comiskey and Jacobson along with Russ Wilcox and Jerome Rubin founded E Ink Corporation.[7]
Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the book Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA.[8] He has also contributed articles about product development to Entrepreneur[9] and Wired.[10]
Albert is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society.[11]
Personal life and education
Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering[12] from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.
References
- ↑ Comiskey, Barrett (18 May 1998). "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays". Nature (394): 253–255. doi:10.1038/28349. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6690/full/394253a0.html. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ↑ "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News" (in en-US). http://www.bresslergroup.com/news/jd-albert-named-2016-inductee-of-national-inventors-hall-of-fame/.
- ↑ "jdalbert.com". http://www.jdalbert.com/#new-page. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ↑ "JD Albert". http://ipd.me.upenn.edu/pipd-about/faculty/.
- ↑ Primozic, Ursa. "Interview with Barrett Comiskey". https://www.visionect.com/blog/interview-with-barrett-comiskey/. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ↑ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday" (in en-US). http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/how-electronic-ink-was-invented/.
- ↑ Klein, Alec. "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB946939872703897050. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ↑ Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02) (in English). Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA (1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118971802. https://www.amazon.com/Design-Thinking-Product-Development-Essentials/dp/1118971809/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.
- ↑ Albert, JD. "JD Albert". https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/jd-albert.
- ↑ Bresslergroup, JD Albert,. "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation" (in en-US). https://www.wired.com/insights/2015/01/hackathons-for-hardware-innovation/.
- ↑ "TBP Member Search". http://tbp.org/memb/MemberLookup.cfm.
- ↑ "LinkedIn". https://www.linkedin.com/in/jd-albert-8647a2.
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